QASP Exam (Latest 2023, 100% Correct Answers)
QASP Exam (Latest 2023, 100% Correct Answers)
Minimum supervision by a BCBA
1 hour/month
QASP will
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trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
Non-discrimination policy
The QABA Credentialing Board will not discriminate against applicants,
candidates or certificants on the basis of race, color, gender (including gender
identity and gender expression), religion, age, marital status, registered domestic
partner status, disability, socioeconomic or ethnic background, sexual orientation,
genetic information, veteran status or national origin, or any other characteristic
protected by law.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
A disorder characterized by deficits in social relatedness and communication skills
that are often accompanied by repetitive, ritualistic behavior.
ASD characteristics
Communication- Delay or lack of development of language, diffiulty holding
conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that is not appropriate for
developmental level.
Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate social
interaction, failure to develop age appropriate peer relationships, little sharing of
pleasure, achievements or interests with others, lack of social or emotional
reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly intense
and/or unusual, unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and folowing familiar
routines, repetitive motor mannerisms, preoccupation with parts of objects.
ASD deficits
Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive beahviors
Triad of Impairments
Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
joint attention
Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs when two people
share interest in an object or event and there is understanding between the two
people that they are both interested in the same object or event.
Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input
Sometimes the senses of autistic children are in 'hypo', so that they do not really
see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their senses they might wave their hands
around or rock forth and back or make strange noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory input from
any of the senses.
Historical definitions of autism
1908- word autism is used to describe schizophrenic patients who were also
withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but "displayed a
powerful desire for aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories 1)
impaired social communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or repetitive
beahviors
Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism
Mental retardation, learning difficulties, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD,
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